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Thursday, 5 March 2015

The hard life of the activist …

So I tried to become a famous …writer, blogger, singer, actress, hooligan, a famous Algerian…a famous anything! Nothing seems to stick, it’s almost as though I was unmemorable, despite my huge knockers and shockingly orange-ish hair…it’s a hard world to break into when you are a talentless nincompoop!

I decided to
study the field, see how famous and popular people get so famous and popular.Turns out it’s just a damn popularity contest.
If you use a lot of long and complicated Shakespearean words or a number of
ISMS you’ll get a few likes for a few days then people will eventually stop
trying to pretend to understand what the hell nepotism and expansionism mean
and go scouring for the next cause of the week to follow, like, tweet or
photograph next to.

So I started
working the anger angle, indignant angry Facebook status, as much indignation
and revulsion as the twitter 140 characters permit and other aspiring activists
followed through like lambs to the slaughter.

I scour the
internet for a new cause on a weekly basis, slavery week, Arab week, fanaticism,
Islamophobia week and as ever the Palestinian occupation and the shale Gas
issue even if I understand squat about it, it’s got to be bad for you…and me…probably!

Sometimes I
find scoops, I like scoops, the joy posting a scoop on my Facebook gives me is
only comparable with the joy sex would provide, but I wouldn’t know…I am a
virgin, always have been.

Topics I
pick have to be relatively easy if deep and complicated, I run the risk of being challenged by some
know-it-all smart-ass, I better be ready with some
copy and paste argument I found on some obscure book no one can google and I
will just omit to use the quotation marks! If found out, there’s always “Ooops,
sorry”.

Maybe I’ll
just talk about fuel prices, that’s kinda easy enough, what is there to say
anyway, “prices have gone up GRRRRR, DOWN WITH CAPITALISM”

I also like to
join any going protest, I don’t tend to start them because that’s obviously
hard work but I will join them and the hardest job for me is really to get to
the front line and borrow someone’s placard so I am photographed to death and
filmed shouting abuse at the imperialist governments, at Apartheid Israel, at
racist America etc...It’s important I capture the attention of the photojournalists
etc! Better make my causes bloody and violent that’ll definitely get the
western media interested, maybe they’ll invite me for an interview! That’d be
swell.

I can sit
there looking western and confusingly white-ish with my orange hair comparing
to my fellow African people, so they’ll trust me more after all I am almost
white. And as my name and the word activist appear on the screen, the farce has
been proved. I am now a renewed activist, a regular revolutionary with many
mild opinions about many things.

Then I would
push things to get arrested, that would be the pinnacle of my activist career,
when I come out, I could attempt to write a book about 24 hours life behind bars, perhaps steal a couple of
tales from my cell mate, it could be a best seller…doubt it! But who cares…I
will be a renowned activist.

But my dream
really is to go to Africa, live somewhere cool in West Africa or even South
East Asia or wherever there’s trouble (will google it before deciding), join an
NGO that helps educate children, maybe help the Kids Who Can't Read Good and
Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too and provide them with clean water and
vaccinations, so I attend a number of meetings, I check in from different locations
wearing old t-shirts and look scruffy, bad hair and a poor wardrobe are
essential to the image of the activist. Because they’ve evolved past materiel
needs and possessions that come with the prevailing consumerist… blah blah blah
…

I would get involved with a few causes whilst I am there, always putting my name down on collective articles and films and projects so my name would come up on any google search.

I always
pick the easiest job, like communication or PR, that way I get to communicate
to the world through Facebook, Instagram and twitter all the while working that
tan. I can always say I’m always out on the field and a lot of the time I get
burnt from the hot African sun. No one will ever question my skills, how
tangible or relevant my work really is. They will just like my posts, respect
me, secretly envy me but unwillingly keep following me with keen interest like
the National Geographic.

Most people
will probably hate me but that’s only because they’re jealous of me,
obviously!! They don’t know that whilst they’re slaving away at their
desk-bound jobs in the city earning big bucks and paying it all back in taxes
and whatnots, I’ll be living it up on the very government funds I am supposed
to be opposing and UN money of course! Cunning!!!

I know a lot
of people will finally start talking about me, of the work that I do, of the
causes I support and of the sacrifices I made to become the ever unfulfilled activist
whose hobbies are collecting twitter followers , facebook likes and photos in
impoverished and war torn areas (these will be mostly photoshoped, I ain’t
going to no war zone) of the world, but through all of this amazing life of
mine, I know really that I have mastered the art of acting and could always
fall back on a Hollywood career, after all I am almost white and almost famous.

Wow! what a super woman you're dz bella, with multiple talent, skills and intelligence on the top of all this you're an activist! no wonder some people are jealous of you.Listen, I wished you wealth last time let's hope fame too ;)Ciao Bellahappy FridayM

What ever you're faking it or not to me you are a good writer and a blogger so definitely you are talented woman!hope I'll receive the invitation to your tedX talk ;)BTW what is Tedx??Ciao BellaBuona notteM

Thanks dz bella can't wait for the invite!I think your TedX talk will exceed the 18 minutes, as you've so much to share from your knowledge and experience in life ! so in your case you will call it TedX Plus ;)happy Monday CiaoM

Wow an activisit! girl you are a saint, (21st century saw the replacement of saints by activists). If you need any help, you can count on me... faking one's life sounds so much fun, um I mean activism is soooo soul-fulfilling ;)

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